When Technology Disappears and Your Kidney Meridians Follow Shortly Thereafter PART I
I have this pattern of disappearing and reappearing. You get emails from me, blog posts, a few events/products, and then I’m gone again. Is it my generation (growing up with kerosene lamps and candles, running cold water (no hot) instead of computers, cell phones and...
The Slippery Slope of Artist Statements
When you’ve read as many truly awful artist statements as I have, it begins to dawn on you that maybe, just maybe, the problem starts at the very beginning, before sliding down the slippery slope of awfulness. What if accurately defining an artist statement was the...
What do You do When Grief Takes Over?
I remember when my mother was dying. I was getting ready for my orals in graduate school and the one thing I couldn't have imagined, since all mothers are invincible, is that my healthy, vivacious, 83-year-old, artist mother would die. Time stood still as the nurse...
How Do You Stop Grief, Illness, or Loss From Upstaging Your Art? Should You?
I suspect this question is so deeply personal that it's like a fingerprint: each of us will respond from the life conditions that have shaped each of us, and shape us still. There is strong folklore about the value of the suffering artist to her art; that dark times...
Part 2: Why the Power of Intention Gets Results
As I illuminated in Part 1, the power of intention is a simple, decades-old practice that blends the spiritual with the psychological and the practical. And then, there’s intention as a specific neurological landscape. What doesn’t get a lot of airtime is how bringing...
Part 1: Why the Power of Intention Gets Results
The power of intention is a simple, decades old practice, one that blends the spiritual with the psychological and the practical. You could also make the case that it blends the psychological with the practical and neurological…and leave the spiritual out of it. You...